
Research Methods
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- Q1Milgram's Obedience Study - the extent to which people obey the researcherDescriptivePredictiveExplanatory30s
- Q2Surveying adult participants regarding their history of traumatic childhood events (e.g., getting lost in a shopping mall, abuse, etc.)RetrospectiveCross-SectionalLongitudinal30s
- Q3A college instructor gives weekly quizzes to students in one section of her course but no quizzes in another section to see whether this has an effect on their test performanceDescriptivePredictiveExplanatory30s
- Q4A researcher looks at the relationships between parental attachment, work and family roles, and life satisfactionDescriptivePredictiveExplanatory30s
- Q5Assessing behavioral responses of substance-exposed newbornsExplanatoryPredictiveDescriptive30s
- Q6Thirty-year stability and predictive validity of vocational interests in psychology studentsRetrospectiveProspectiveCross-Sectional30s
- Q7I obtain a sample that includes 10 U.S.-citizens, 10 LPRs, and 10 unauthorized adultsConvenience SamplingCase StudySnowball SamplingQuota Sampling30s
- Q8I stand outside the MSMU library and survey the first 15 people who enter about their pizza topping preferenceQuota SamplingPurposive SamplingCase StudyConvenience Sampling30s
- Q9I survey students in each of my courses about vocational preferences of psychology graduate studentsConvenience SamplingPurposive SamplingCase StudyQuota Sampling30s
- Q10I recruit 2 students to complete a battery of personality assessments and report their similarities and differencesCase StudyQuota SamplingSnowball SamplingConvenience Sampling30s
- Q11I visit a private practice to gather therapists for my study. I then ask them for contact information for other private practice therapists to include in my studySnowball SamplingPurposive SamplingQuota SamplingConvenience Sampling30s
- Q12Cite me for the first time: Walling, S. M., Eriksson, C. B., Putman, K. M., & Foy, D. W. (2011).(Walling, Eriksson, Putman, and Foy, 2011)(Walling, Eriksson, Putman, & Foy, 2011)(Walling, Eriksson, Putman, & Foy 2011)(Walling et al., 2011)30s
- Q13Cite me the second time: Walling, S. M., Eriksson, C. B., Putman, K. M., & Foy, D. W. (2011).(Walling, et al., 2011)(Walling et al., 2011)(Walling, Eriksson, Putman, & Foy, 2011)(Walling et al 2011)30s
- Q14Cite me the first time: World Health Organization (2016)(World Health Organization; 2016)(WHO, 2016)(World Health Organization, 2016)(World Health Organization 2016)30s
- Q15Cite me the first time: Rojas-Flores, L., Herrera, S., Currier, J. M., Lin, E. Y., Kulzer, R., & Foy, D. W. (2013).(Rojas-Flores, Herrera, Currier, Lin, et al., 2013)(Rojas-Flores et al., 2013)(Rojas-Flores et al. 2013)(Rojas-Flores, Herrera, Currier, Lin, Kulzer, & Foy, 2013)30s